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chess
Oil shipments, drone makers, and a poisoned code library targeted in recent APT campaigns

Geopolitical pressure drove much of the state-sponsored cyber activity recorded between October 2025 and March 2026, according to ESET’s latest APT Activity Report. …

key
Frontier AI models collapse under multi-turn AI attacks, Cisco finds

Attackers who probe large language models rarely give up after one refusal. They reframe, build context across turns, adopt personas, and escalate gradually. New research from …

cloud security
Companies built AI into core systems before figuring out how to govern it

70% of organizations use GenAI in live environments, and 64% have AI agents in pilot or production deployments. Some of those agents have privileged access to core systems, …

AI EU
European AI adoption hits 99% with regulated data driving most policy violations

Generative AI tools operate inside nearly every European workplace, embedded in meeting transcription services, writing assistants, coding copilots, and search features. …

shadow AI
Turns out the C-suite loves shadow AI

Senior decision-makers are the heaviest users of unapproved AI tools, and they continue using them despite being aware of the security and privacy risks linked to shadow AI, …

downtime
Downtime has become a $600 billion business problem

The average cost of downtime has reached $600 billion for the Global 2000, a 50% increase in two years. According to Splunk’s The Hidden Costs of Downtime report, unplanned …

NFC
The new economics of fraud: Cheaper, faster, more convincing

Scams have become one of the fastest-growing consumer risks, driven by AI-enabled impersonation, social engineering, and sophisticated attack methods, according to Visa’s …

attack
Cyber threats push SMBs to spend more on security

Cybersecurity has become a key priority for small and medium-sized businesses due to growing threats and wider AI adoption. An IDC survey of 2,200 SMBs in eight markets …

Verizon DBIR 2026
Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability exploitation is the dominant initial access vector

Vulnerability exploitation has overtaken stolen credentials as the most common way attackers gain initial access to target networks, according to the 2026 Verizon Data Breach …

AI
AI infrastructure is cracking under sovereignty demands

AI deployments are moving into environments with tighter controls around data, infrastructure, and system operations. Organizations are building AI systems across multiple …

downtime
AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours

Time has become organizations’ biggest vulnerability because the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has narrowed to hours, according to Synack’s 2026 State …

question
The AI oversight paradox: Is the investment worth the cost of watching it?

Unlike in 2025, when AI adoption and testing drove business strategies, organizations in 2026 want proven ROI before committing budgets, according to a report by Globalization …

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